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snapping |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Snap \Snap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snapped}; p. pr & vb n. {Snapping}.] [LG. or D. snappen to snap up to snatch; akin to G. schnappen MHG. snaben Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel beak, bill. Cf {Neb}, {Snaffle}, n.] 1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle. Breaks the doors open snaps the locks. --Prior. 2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound. 3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth. He by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last --South. 4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words to treat snappishly; -- usually with up --Granville. 5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as to snap a whip. MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. --Sir W. Scott. 6. To project with a snap. {To snap back} (Football), to roll the ball back with the foot; -- done only by the center rush, who thus delivers the ball to the quarter back on his own side when both sides are ranged in line From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Snapping \Snap"ping\, a. & n. from {Snap}, v. {Snapping beetle}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Snap beetle}, under {Snap}. {Snapping turtle}. (Zo["o]l.) a A large and voracious aquatic turtle ({Chelydra serpentina}) common in the fresh waters of the United States; -- so called from its habit of seizing its prey by a snap of its jaws. Called also {mud turtle}. b See {Alligator snapper}, under {Alligator}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: snapping adj : having a series of short sharp noises; "longed for a big fire with snapping logs"; "folding a crackling newspaper" [syn: {crackling}]
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